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• Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services – Helen Mayo House, Kaurna Land, Glenside 5065
•  Salary

• Classification - AHP3 - Allied Health Professional L3 $104,180.00 to $111,746.00 + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits

• Part Time (0.7 FTE) - Term Contract - Temporary from 2 September 2025 – 31 October 2025 (working Thursdays AM, with other days negotiable)

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the CAMHS team as a Senior Social Worker, where you will be responsible for:

• Provide expert clinical care to parents, infants, and families experiencing mental health challenges.
• Deliver advanced social work services within a multidisciplinary and interagency team.
• Offer clinical leadership and supervision to social work staff within or across teams.
• Support families with complex social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties.
• Lead service quality and safety improvements aligned with community needs.
• Collaborate with allied health, nursing, medical staff, and leadership to enhance service delivery.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
• Recognition by the AASW as an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker.
• Work with a high degree of responsibility with limited supervision and direction.  Communicate clearly in both written and verbal forms.
• Demonstrated ability in perinatal and infant mental health assessments and management, with an understanding of complex problems using a biopsychosocial approach.
• Experience in the delivery of perinatal and infant mental assessment.
• Experience in the area of clinical supervision.

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
• Free public transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital workers to and from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Note: Does not apply to network community sites.
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia.  We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Enquiries

Tina Bull

Administration Coordinator

Tina.bull@sa.gov.au

708 71047

Application Closing Date: Friday 15th August 2025 – 11:55pm

Useful Links

WCHN Competency Framework.pdf

Australian applicant guidelines

 AHP3 - Senior Social Worker - Role Description - 908989.pdf